It’s something never seen before,” marine biologist Cherisse Du Preez told Science Post France, when her team’s submersible ...

Home to an array of deep-sea ecosystems, hydrothermal vents, underwater mountain ranges and vast coral reef systems, the region is increasingly recognised as a natural laboratory for cutting-edge ...

As David Attenborough reflects in his new documentary Ocean, "After living for nearly 100 years on this planet, I now understand the most important place on Earth is not on land, but at sea". We ...

For more than 100,000 years, coastal communities have harvested abalone (genus Haliotis). These gastropods, which are found ...

Also known as "volcano snails," these gastropods grow a suit of metal-enriched scaly armor and have an enormous heart, which helps them survive in oxygen-poor water in the deep ocean.

The minerals that are being targeted form a critical part of the sea floor, and the sea floor is what life attaches to in the ...

Credit: ROV Isis team, NERC. Focus: Studying the biodiversity and natural history of animals at deep-sea hydrothermal vents and related ecosystems Funding: Natural Environment Research Council We are ...

It is the largest habitat on Earth – and also the least explored. As world leaders prepare to meet in Nice for a major UN ...

especially those that inhabit hydrothermal vent communities and cold-water corals. These mining activities pose multiple risks to biodiversity, including potentially irreversible losses and ...

It fortifies these scales with minerals absorbed from the hot liquid spewed by hydrothermal vents and black smoker ... astrophysics, biodiversity and evolution appear in museums and science ...